WHO I AM

Three threads, one throughline

For more than two decades, I’ve worked at an unusual intersection: the industries built to connect people, and the practice of understanding why connection so often fails. As a senior leader in artificial intelligence and digital transformation, I’ve watched, at close range, how the most connected industry in the world can produce some of the most quietly disconnected people I’ve ever met. I recognized what I was watching because I’d watched it in myself first.

In 2008, I founded an Ayurvedic healthcare practice Ayurvalley, rooted in a belief that’s older than most modern medicine: that the body and mind were never two separate systems pretending to be one. What started as a single practice has grown, over fifteen years, into one operating across multiple locations in India.

Alongside that work, I’ve spent years researching hypnosis and the less visible architecture of the mind, not out of curiosity about the unusual, but from a practical question I kept running into with real people: why do we already know what we need, and still find it so hard to change?

I grew up in Kerala, India, and now live in Dubai with my family. Between the technology work, the mind-body practice, and now the writing, the throughline has stayed the same: the gap between knowing and feeling, and what it actually takes to close it. That throughline led, eventually, to my first book, Before the Distance Wins.